Lance Armstrong won seven Tours and one World Championship. He was a very, very good cyclist.

But he was no Merckx.

Eddie Merckx won the Tour five times, the Giro five times, the Vuelta once, and three World Championships. Need I even mention San Remo (7), the Ronde van Vlaanderen (2), Roubaix (3), Liège (5), and Lombardia (2)?

About big jonny

The man, the legend. The guy who started it all back in the Year of Our Lord Beer, 2000, with a couple of pages worth of idiotic ranting hardcoded on some random porn site that would host anything you uploaded, a book called HTML for Dummies (which was completely appropriate), a bad attitude (which hasn’t much changed), and a Dell desktop running Win95 with 64 mgs of ram and a six gig hard drive. Those were the days. Then he went to law school. Go figure.
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

…onegeargood…i think they both add wonderful texture to the rich tapestry that is cycling…

…eddy merckx ???…eddy merckx still stands alone…despite ‘anything’…

…& i don’t know how young mister danny macaskill ultimately stands amongst his peers but the videos of his work///riding are unparalleled in the industry…from start to finish, they’re a beautiful treat, not just a video i scope to see cool & radical riding…

Though I understand your sentiment, I’ve witnessed pack filler go from “I’ll try to hang in” to having the confidence of a champion and true self belief through the use of drugs to win races.

Doping works, physically and then yes, mentally. It also serves the opposite, which is to deflate quality riders who won’t dope when they get beaten by those that do. Stolen glory and fake greatness, it is evil.